Happy Canada Day, fellow Canuckistanian WoW nerds!
I told you I've been busy!
Well, the Midsummer festival is winding down on Azeroth, and that's okay with me. I have, in the past week-ish, gotten:
-A Scorchling pet for my warlock
-A Captured Flame for ALL my toons
-The "Flame Warden" title on my warlock and mage [the warlock being the toon I am working on the "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been" meta-achievement with]
But wait, there's more!
I also:
-Fished up Mr. Pinchy, FINALLY! On my hunter. Got the Magical Crawdad on my second wish! =)
-Completed the "Lil' Game Hunter" achievement [75 mini-pets on one toon] and earned myself a fawn pet
-FINALLY got the Green Proto-Drake Mount!!! After getting the mount, I promptly switched Snooky from Oracles to Frenzyheart. I love those Wolvar. I really do.
While that doesn't sound like so much in text, it's a lot of work running 10 toons around honoring/extinguishing fires all over Azeroth and Outland! But it was well worth it. The quest experience leveled a whole bunch of my toons, and I had a great Indiana Jones-esque escape from Orgimmar on my mage that I will remember for a long time. haha.
My guild has started alt-night Naxx runs for the time being [til 3.2, I'd surmise] and I opted out this week so my husband could join in. We haven't had the healers for Ulduar lately, but we'll get back in there soon. My friend Lieke - the girl I mentioned in a previous entry, recruit from wow_ladies - has been working very hard to gear her paladin for healing, and she cleaned house for upgrades on the last Naxx run I was in with her, so she'll be Ulduar-ready in no time.
Also, the pally Lieke was supposed to "replace" so-to-speak recently returned to the game, so that's great too. It gives a couple of people who rolled healers for the sake of the guild when they had other "mains" initially a chance to return to a class they actually enjoy playing. =)
Showing posts with label world events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world events. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Well-rested
Last night, my guild and I ventured into Naxx-10, as we generally do on Wednesday nights. We were short one initially, so decided to head in with nine of us. I was offtanking on Snooky, my death knight, as usual, and we were doing quite well!
Then, I let a pack of spiders get away and hit the raid. We didn't wipe, and I didn't really mean to but the reason for my mishap was obvious as I proclaimed over Vent:
"Oh my god! Is that Lumpey?!"
A close friend and guildie of mine recently was out of commission when he had an issue with a new graphics card he bought. He couldn't re-install his old one, either, because of DirectX being a butthead. But - he fixed the issue! Yay! Just in time for our raid!
So it turned out to be for the better that we'd hit up Naxx with nine of us rather than 10, since we had a spot saved for him.
In other news, today is the last day of Children's Week, and as it peters out, I'm hit with a minor WoW burnout. Unfortunate! But, it happens. I've been playing way too much trying to get these achievements done for the Violet proto-drake, among other things. I'm going to take it easy, for now, and let my alts build-up some well-rested bonuses.
I did get my paladin, Cadmus, to 56 today.
Here he is, in all his femboy glory, with his little Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling eyeballing him, wondering how it is possible for anyone to look more flamboyant than it does.
Then, I let a pack of spiders get away and hit the raid. We didn't wipe, and I didn't really mean to but the reason for my mishap was obvious as I proclaimed over Vent:
"Oh my god! Is that Lumpey?!"
A close friend and guildie of mine recently was out of commission when he had an issue with a new graphics card he bought. He couldn't re-install his old one, either, because of DirectX being a butthead. But - he fixed the issue! Yay! Just in time for our raid!
So it turned out to be for the better that we'd hit up Naxx with nine of us rather than 10, since we had a spot saved for him.
In other news, today is the last day of Children's Week, and as it peters out, I'm hit with a minor WoW burnout. Unfortunate! But, it happens. I've been playing way too much trying to get these achievements done for the Violet proto-drake, among other things. I'm going to take it easy, for now, and let my alts build-up some well-rested bonuses.
I did get my paladin, Cadmus, to 56 today.
Here he is, in all his femboy glory, with his little Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling eyeballing him, wondering how it is possible for anyone to look more flamboyant than it does.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Recruitment, etc.
Over the past few days, I've gotten a couple of hits with my recruitment post. Pretty awesome!
One of them is a girl from wow_ladies, whose main character is Horde, on another server. She is currently levelling a Paladin to raid with us, which sounded cool to me -- as even if her main was Alliance, transferring servers costs real money, and if she ended up not liking our guild then she'd have been stuck on our server for a few months. Her main is a priest, so she has experience healing -- and when she rolled a paladin, I was doubly happy, since one of our core raiders who recently quit the game was a holy paladin. Yaaaay.
Another person we just added to our roster today, a balance druid gentlemen gone feral to try his hand [paw?] at tanking. I joined him on a couple of heroic runs as a trial [Utgarde Keep and Drak'theron Keep, to be specific]. He did quite well, really! The only thing that could improve him is gear, and that will come in due time. [He did pick up two epics from the aforementioned dungeons, so that was cool too.] As far as the basics, though, he seems to be doing just fine with them. We had a laugh about trigger-happy DPS on a wipe, myself included... because I should have known better, being a tank, geeeze!
I finally got my alts their Children's Week pets, but that took up about all the time I had during the day, in between running around doing things here. Didn't even get to my fishing daily, QQ.
Bedtime!
One of them is a girl from wow_ladies, whose main character is Horde, on another server. She is currently levelling a Paladin to raid with us, which sounded cool to me -- as even if her main was Alliance, transferring servers costs real money, and if she ended up not liking our guild then she'd have been stuck on our server for a few months. Her main is a priest, so she has experience healing -- and when she rolled a paladin, I was doubly happy, since one of our core raiders who recently quit the game was a holy paladin. Yaaaay.
Another person we just added to our roster today, a balance druid gentlemen gone feral to try his hand [paw?] at tanking. I joined him on a couple of heroic runs as a trial [Utgarde Keep and Drak'theron Keep, to be specific]. He did quite well, really! The only thing that could improve him is gear, and that will come in due time. [He did pick up two epics from the aforementioned dungeons, so that was cool too.] As far as the basics, though, he seems to be doing just fine with them. We had a laugh about trigger-happy DPS on a wipe, myself included... because I should have known better, being a tank, geeeze!
I finally got my alts their Children's Week pets, but that took up about all the time I had during the day, in between running around doing things here. Didn't even get to my fishing daily, QQ.
Bedtime!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Children's Week continues
It's still Children's Week! I managed to get my "Matron" title on my warlock on the second day. My guildies are having some trouble with the "School of Hard Knocks" achievement I talked about in my previous post, so I guess maybe I got really lucky in getting mine finished. Alliance in my battlegroup are generally terrible with teamwork on a regular day, so... I can only imagine. I plan on not PVPing at all until this holiday is well over with, now that I've gotten my achievement out of the way... Well, actually, I guess it helps that Strand of the Ancients is my favourite battleground, and there's no part of the meta tied to it... Yet!
I'm still working on getting all of my alts their holiday pets. It's taking considerably longer than the Noblegarden bunnies took to procure, but I guess that's because it requires running around all over Azeroth and beyond, as opposed to running laps around a little starter town.
Tomorrow night I guess!
I'm still working on getting all of my alts their holiday pets. It's taking considerably longer than the Noblegarden bunnies took to procure, but I guess that's because it requires running around all over Azeroth and beyond, as opposed to running laps around a little starter town.
Tomorrow night I guess!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Children's Week
Children's Week is upon us, and what that means for me is another group of achievements as part of the What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been meta, in pursuit of the Violet Proto-Drake.
I was very disappointed to learn that the gorloc and wolvar orphans did not make it past the PTR. They are easily one of my favourite parts of the last expansion, and I was looking forward to having one of either race follow me around outside of Sholazar! Oh well, maybe next year.
Back on the meta: Like a lot of players, I was a little worried about the "School of Hard Knocks" achievement that required you to do a bunch of things in each pre-Wrath battleground that were honestly difficult for most classes to do on a regular pvp day, nevermind during a world-event where eleventy billion people would be fighting against their own team just to get a certain thing accomplished.
But, my worry turned out to be for naught. I actually managed to get it done within an hour, although I will admit the Alterac tower cap was basically dumb luck on my part. My team and the Horde's team were busy killing each other at Frostwolf, and I managed to slip by and assault one of the towers... just before getting steamrolled by a bunch of Death Knights.
Woot!
Afterwards, I parked my main and hopped on my shaman to go do the Outland orphan quests.
Mostly because I missed adorable moments like this one:
[Dornaa and her brother Jheel, reunited at Aeris Landing, Nagrand.]
I love world events so much!
I was very disappointed to learn that the gorloc and wolvar orphans did not make it past the PTR. They are easily one of my favourite parts of the last expansion, and I was looking forward to having one of either race follow me around outside of Sholazar! Oh well, maybe next year.
Back on the meta: Like a lot of players, I was a little worried about the "School of Hard Knocks" achievement that required you to do a bunch of things in each pre-Wrath battleground that were honestly difficult for most classes to do on a regular pvp day, nevermind during a world-event where eleventy billion people would be fighting against their own team just to get a certain thing accomplished.
But, my worry turned out to be for naught. I actually managed to get it done within an hour, although I will admit the Alterac tower cap was basically dumb luck on my part. My team and the Horde's team were busy killing each other at Frostwolf, and I managed to slip by and assault one of the towers... just before getting steamrolled by a bunch of Death Knights.
Woot!
Afterwards, I parked my main and hopped on my shaman to go do the Outland orphan quests.
Mostly because I missed adorable moments like this one:
[Dornaa and her brother Jheel, reunited at Aeris Landing, Nagrand.]
I love world events so much!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
More Mage Mischief
So here is something that I just learned today, and man, am I glad I did!
I think the WoW bunny critters are waaaay too cute. From their little headscritching idling animation, to the scream they emit when you club them to death. I've got a few "set" non-combat pets for certain characters. For example, my Forsaken warrior is never without his piggy, Mr. Wiggles [because, come on, a big bad undead warrior with a pet piggy named MR. WIGGLES of all things? Hilarious.] And, more on topic, my Death Knight, Snooky, when doing dailies, is almost always accompanied by her Snowshoe Rabbit.
Now, I was happy enough to learn that the Noblegarden event pet was another rabbit with its own... ahem... "special" animation. But, while surfing WoW Ladies today, something else was brought to my attention!
During Noblegarden, mages could purchase a Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit for 100 Noblegarden Chocolates. WHAT. I had no idea! The reason being that the tome is not visible to non-mage classes on the vendor, and I didn't actually go to purchase anything from him on my mage. I was farming only for the pet, and I [luckily] got it as a drop from a Brightly Coloured Egg on her.
As soon as I found out, I logged onto my mage and zipped over to Azure Watch yet again for some egg farming. It took me probably 20 minutes to get all 100 running around, since most people are already done with their egg camping/farming.
I bought the tome and learned the spell.
Scamper, awwww.
I decided to test it out while I was getting a couple more achievements done, so here we are in Desolace as I was planting a rose with my Spring Robes.
Aww, what an adorable deadly scorpion.
I think the WoW bunny critters are waaaay too cute. From their little headscritching idling animation, to the scream they emit when you club them to death. I've got a few "set" non-combat pets for certain characters. For example, my Forsaken warrior is never without his piggy, Mr. Wiggles [because, come on, a big bad undead warrior with a pet piggy named MR. WIGGLES of all things? Hilarious.] And, more on topic, my Death Knight, Snooky, when doing dailies, is almost always accompanied by her Snowshoe Rabbit.
Now, I was happy enough to learn that the Noblegarden event pet was another rabbit with its own... ahem... "special" animation. But, while surfing WoW Ladies today, something else was brought to my attention!
During Noblegarden, mages could purchase a Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit for 100 Noblegarden Chocolates. WHAT. I had no idea! The reason being that the tome is not visible to non-mage classes on the vendor, and I didn't actually go to purchase anything from him on my mage. I was farming only for the pet, and I [luckily] got it as a drop from a Brightly Coloured Egg on her.
As soon as I found out, I logged onto my mage and zipped over to Azure Watch yet again for some egg farming. It took me probably 20 minutes to get all 100 running around, since most people are already done with their egg camping/farming.
I bought the tome and learned the spell.
Scamper, awwww.
I decided to test it out while I was getting a couple more achievements done, so here we are in Desolace as I was planting a rose with my Spring Robes.
Aww, what an adorable deadly scorpion.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Of bunnies and Noblegarden
Noblegarden is in full swing on Azeroth, and like a lot of people, I am trying to get myself a Violet Proto-drake.
What that means is spending hours running around like a six-year-old on some horrible Speed/pixie stick bender, giggling: "I found one! I found one! F you this is my egg, BIATCH!"
Or you can be one of those stationary lumps of bunny camping eggs.
I found that I net more eggs per hour doing the running around bit than camping out spawn spots, even the really good ones like in Brill [H] and Azure Watch [A]. Mind you, I try my best not to egg hunt at peak hours.
I've gotten all 10 of my toons the adorable little Spring Rabbit pet this way, plus my warlock [whom I am trying for the mount on] her "the Noble" title.
Non-combat pets are my reason for doing anything in this game. [Here is my warcraftpets.com collection, if you're curious.] So, now that I've gotten the Noblegarden pet on all my toons, BRING ON CHILDREN'S WEEK.
[As a footnote though, if I always look this absolutely perfect degree of frightening and adorable, Noblegarden can stay.]
What that means is spending hours running around like a six-year-old on some horrible Speed/pixie stick bender, giggling: "I found one! I found one! F you this is my egg, BIATCH!"
Or you can be one of those stationary lumps of bunny camping eggs.
I found that I net more eggs per hour doing the running around bit than camping out spawn spots, even the really good ones like in Brill [H] and Azure Watch [A]. Mind you, I try my best not to egg hunt at peak hours.
I've gotten all 10 of my toons the adorable little Spring Rabbit pet this way, plus my warlock [whom I am trying for the mount on] her "the Noble" title.
Non-combat pets are my reason for doing anything in this game. [Here is my warcraftpets.com collection, if you're curious.] So, now that I've gotten the Noblegarden pet on all my toons, BRING ON CHILDREN'S WEEK.
[As a footnote though, if I always look this absolutely perfect degree of frightening and adorable, Noblegarden can stay.]
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